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Bru Repatriation: 289 of More Than 4,000 Families Return to Mizoram

  • Altogether 1,165 Brus, belonging to 289 families, returned to Mizoram from the six relief camps of Tripura during the ninth round of the government-sponsored repatriation process, which concluded on November 30, a state home department official said on Sunday.
  • The repatriation exercise was the final attempt at bringing back the 4,447 Bru families – identified by the state as its bona fide residents who fled to the neighbouring state during an ethnic clash over two decades ago, he said.
  • The Mizoram government had earlier informed the Centre that the final round of the Bru repatriation exercise would conclude on November 30 and all officials would be withdrawn by Saturday evening.
  • Officials who were posted at the Mizoram-Tripura- Bangladesh border since October 3, when the process began, have returned to their respective district headquarters.
  • The repatriation process was undertaken despite opposition from different representatives of the Bru community, who demanded resettlement in their area of choice, the home department official said.
     

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